Rangel insulted the Magnolia State in 2006 by asking, “Who in the hell wants to live in Mississippi?”

In 2010, a House panel found Rangel, a strong supporter of gun control, guilty of dodging taxes and concealing assets.

“To exploit the congressman’s good name to sell an assault rifle in his store is utterly disrespectful to the congressman, who is a decorated veteran,” Rangel spokeswoman Hannah Kim said in an e-mail yesterday.